Article
Phenotypic variation and covariation indicate high evolvability of acoustic communication in crickets.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Sept 2015
Blankers T, Lübke A K, Hennig R M
Abstract excerpt
Studying the genetic architecture of sexual traits provides insight into the rate and direction at which traits can respond to selection. Traits associated with few loci and limited genetic and phenotypic constraints tend to evolve at high rates typically observed for secondary sexual characters. Here, we examined the genetic architecture of song traits and female song preferences in the field crickets Gryllus...
Topics
- Acoustic Stimulation
- Animal Communication
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Epistasis, Genetic
- Female
- Gryllidae
- Male
- Mating Preference, Animal
- Multivariate Analysis
- Phenotype